Prisoner Quotes

507 Prisoner quotes by 407 unique authors

New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances.… — Daniel Hannan
Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born. — Donald Kagan
There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark...… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners — Fyodor Dostoevsky
To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Prisoner of War guard companies, or an equivalent organization, should be as far forward as possible in action to take over prisoners of war, because… — George S. Patton
Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young… — Zell Miller
A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an opening in the… — Anthony de Mello
A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner. — Mahatma Gandhi
How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside. — George Bernard Shaw
Prejudice makes prisoners of both the hated and the hater. — Randy Shilts
I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the… — Harry S. Truman
So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are. — Stewart Udall
No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness. — Robert Breault
Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing… — Jonathan Swift
A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in the sadness of… — Joseph Conrad
Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner. — Henri Matisse
Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the… — William S. Burroughs
The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how prisoners are treated. — Eugene V. Debs
The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold. — Jacob Bronowski
I'm not an ordinary prisoner. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner. — David Chase

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